Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound-1934
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
The crown of literature is poetry.
William Somerset Maugham
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Joseph Heller
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
Richard
The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde-1891
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
James Russell Lowell
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
Samual McChord Crothers
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
John Steinbeck
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Alfred North Whitehead
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. Lewis
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
Oscar Wilde
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
Salman Rushdie
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
Anatole France
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E.M. Forster
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Samuel Lover
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly